Atlas of Cyberspace

Erin John LeFevre

Posted 30 March 2005 - 02:57 PM

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I had a chance last night to browse through "The Atlas of Cyberspace" by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin. The graphics, maps, concepts, et cetera, behind this book are incredible. Here is the link to the website

"The Atlas of Cyberspace illustrates graphically, the shapes, structures and complex forms of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other virtual media. Drawing on five years worth of research, and divided into four key sections - infrastructure and traffic, information navigation, community and communication, artistic visions - the best and most interesting maps of cyberspace have been compiled into this unique atlas for the Internet age."

Hans van der Maarel

Posted 30 March 2005 - 03:51 PM

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Well, as far as I've been able to figure out, it uses Google to determine which sites are linking to a particular one (and which sites link to those sites) and probabely also how popular they are. The visualisation part is random, but it would be interesting to try and match this with 'geo-ip adresses', such as hostip or ip2location.

Erin John LeFevre

Posted 30 March 2005 - 04:22 PM

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That site raises some interesting questions and possibilities as to how we will search and visualize the internet in the future. Evententually it seems like the search engine interface is going to change into one that's more of a heirarchical 3d visualization of related categories, rather than lists of links that may or may not be related. Erin